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Fiction — if it at all aspires to be art — appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music, like all art, the appeal of one temperament to all the other innumerable temperaments whose subtle and resistless power endows passing...A Handbook on Story Writing - Page 12by Blanche Colton Williams - 1919 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book

...avowal is not yet complete. Fiction — if it at all aspires to be art — appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music,...the moral, the emotional atmosphere of the place and time.](Suc& aij.-appeal to be effective must be an impression conveyed through the senses,; and, in...

...avowal is not yet complete. Fiction — if it at all aspires to be art — appeals to_temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music, like all art, the appeal of one temperament to afl the other innumerable tempera^ menfs whose subtle and resistless power endows passing events TwiffijK'jFltrue...

.... . . Fiction, if it at all aspires to be art, appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be ... the appeal of one temperament to all the other innumerable...moral, the emotional atmosphere of the place and time." One may remark in passing that the closing phrase, "the emotional atmosphere of the place and time,"...

...essay's structure follows conventional expository order. The paragraph begins: "Fiction . . . must be ... like all art, the appeal of one temperament to all...moral, the emotional atmosphere of the place and time." This is essentially a transitional summary of what has gone before; but it is not immediately recognisable...

...activity of seeing. Fiction, writes Conrad, 'appeals to temperament' because it is human temperament 'whose subtle and resistless power endows passing events with their true meaning'. Not the visible universe in itself, but the universe as apprehended by our subjectivity gives art its...

...a version of Conrad's own: Fiction — if it at all inspires to be art — appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music,...the moral, the emotional atmosphere of the place and time.26 In many ways "to make you see" is also the subject of James's The Turn of the Screw (1898)...

...Narcissus (1897), where he writes, "Fiction— if it at all aspires to be art—appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music,...temperament to all the other innumerable temperaments whose subde and resisdess power endows passing events with their true meaning, and creates the moral, the...

...being which is not dependent on wisdom, to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition . . . such an appeal, to be effective, must be an impression conveyed through the senses ... it is not amenable to persuasion . . . its high desire is to reach the secret springs of responsive...

...identification with the ideal of music: Fiction—if it at all aspires to be art—appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music,...emotional atmosphere of the place and time. Such an appeal must be an impression conveyed through the senses; and in fact cannot be made in any other way, because...

...seelische Resonanz finden will : Fiction - if it at all aspires to be art - appeals to temperament. . . . Such an appeal to be effective must be an impression conveyed through the senses . . . All art, therefore, appeals primarily to the senses, and the artistic aim when expressing itself...